Thanks for your interesting reply. I certainly didn't mean to make out that the old way of doing things was better. I was really reflecting on the times when I was a BC. Back in thoose days we tended...

how about letting the base fleet have missions - i.e. on missions page you can set base fleet to defend, but rather than for a specific tick - its essentially in defence mode or not in defence mode....

After years, and what seems like forever, I've finally decided to leave PATeam. As thoose that know me will know, I've been somewhat inactive for shall we say a long time. For thoose that don't know...

why not make population size actually do anything i.e. make it so that the number of people building a ship reflects how long it takes to build it (obviously you would need a logarithmic algorithm so...

If a galaxy had a nice, simple, automated mail I don;t see what the issue is. If I got that mail a) I might not realsie it is automated and b) if it said to look at the forums or whatever I probabaly...

Personally I really like the new skin (note there are three versions for people with different tastes) , I find it clear and easy to use, it has nice graphics and it "feels" nice. The only downside's...

read up - i said its still being worked on. And I also explained why the two ads have to be positioned next to each other. i.e. the vetical ad has to connect to the right hand side of the horizontal...

I understand your point - but this is jolt wide, we have no say in how jolt decides to operate its ads system, we just have to comply with it. As I said before I think our particualr design makes the...

If you try out the beta of the forums scheme the reason for the ad banner location will become apparent. At times there is also a vertical ad banner that connected to the horizontal one. This is the...

Just for the sake of simplifying things - feel free to assume that hard coded limitations would be possible i.e. a single account could own multiple planets - so you could have a single username and...

With research you can pause and start researches which is incredibly useful if you know you are going to be away for a while but don't want to go into vacation mode as you can start a long research....

I'm fairly up for this. But I'll make one thing clear, this would not be about desiging the game, it would be a stocktake, finding out where we are, what our options are in fairly high level terms.
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I agree it is pretty simple (at least I assume it is), and it does solve one of the immediate problems, however it is a step back from where we want to be with the game. There are other solutions to...

When the beta testers give constructive feedback we do listen. The problem is that often despite our best efforts we get people in the beta who don't give feedback beyond "I don't like this feature"....

The code changed a lot for R21 and has changed a lot again for R22 - each round we are moving more things to CSS and generally moving towards W3C compliance - apaprently an early test version of the...

What I was wondering is if this is the correct use of resources though. As we know PA has limited coding resources. Surely it would be better to invest them in solving the problem, rather than making...

Could have an exemption list - currently when you exile you can't end up in your current galaxy, perhaps the last X galaxies should be exempt as well. The danager here is that if X gets too big then...

I stated from the start that I didn't know if the rule would be enforced or not - perhaps I should have clarrified that its not a decision for me to take. The only reason I posted was to put forward...

Unfortunatly I have been at work all day and the only thing I have access to is forums there. I'm also very busy at work atm so haven't been able to check this thread that often. I'll try to find out...

the css does specifiy if its an image or text - thats why people need to design the skin correctly - we won't be particualrly pleased if the css specifies images that contain text - we'd much prefer...

In the sense of inviting people to test yes, but there has been significant internal testing on the variety of servers we have. The beta has been used almost purely for stats testing rather than bug...

I think people might be looking at this the wrong way and blowing it out of all proportion. For example the stamp could just be an indication of whether the alliance has a recruitment thread, whether...

It will happen this year if I have to pay for it myself, it is something that is "red" in the team plan, but we have contingencies in place, so hopefully I won't need to pa myself and will be able to...

fine, but do you not think that if the people in #alliances didn't agree with out choices that they might get rather annoyed and shout at us? To my knowledge there have been no major complaints about...

I actually think this is a very interesting idea. I don;t see it as a way of stopping alliances form forming in game, but having the ability to indicate to new players where might be a good place to...

On the subject of scans, I don;t think its the qualit of scan that should reward as such, but more the usefullness of the scan. Scans for the sake of scans should not generate scans - scans that have...

its not just about when players want to be free, its also about when PATeam, the support team etc. are going to be available. There is a strong possibility that there will be periods of time over the...

A while back on this forum there was a discussion about how long rounds should be. Based on that we decided to try out 7 week rounds. The "plan" is to try to have 5 7 week rounds in a year with very...

We want more micromanegemnt features in the game - this is clear from the announcement we gave at the end of last year about this year. Many of the recent suggestions (from Arfy in particular) could...

No I didn't dismiss any idea. I suggested that the original idea of putting people in c200 would be better if it was for only 36 ticks as then planets would be treated equally regardless of when they...

For reference the #forums channel has now been delaminated from everything that is officially Planetarion related. There are now no mentions of it as a place to go if you have forums issues or need a...

Yes, clearly the game needs to improve in many many areas. However, the game is still better than some of the other games out there that our community is familiar with e.g. pia and dom. While clearly...

well actually - no - the free accouns should ideally have as default as example of what is possible with the new skinning system. This way they get excited and think that they will get even more cool...

its a question of which of the sites you want to be highest in the rankings though (and hence which you want people searhcing for the game to find). Google quite often returns multiple sites for the...

With the new skins system what we did was look at the old skins and see which were popular, we also looked at which were high quality. If they were popular or of high quality we prioritised them for...

I think its worth remembering that zik are meant to be the "hardest" race to play at. Its also worth pointing out it should be possible for any race to do well, assuming a player of the correct skill...

Planetarion has many administrators. Planetarion has one head of Development. Three coders work on the game - Appoco, Cin and Myk. Cin in particular has done a huge amount of coding in the run up to...

Basically: adding cluster etas stretches individuals loaylities in multiple directions. Having different rankings done in different ways forces people to play in different ways for different groups....

I'm not convinced they'd be able to grow fast enough to win the round by doing that from the start. And if they were doing this late round I'd suggets that once you are visible you shouldn;t be able...

Something I don't understand, and perhaps people can help me on this, is why would not having a ranking for say alliances destroy alliances? I mean in the olden days there was no ranking in game and...

u misunderstand, the point the people were making wasn't that bashing exists - it exists in all games, but in the other games the people help u get over your losses. in essence the people were saying...

I want to comment on this bit. And say simply that you can play with your friends. The current galaxy setup is designed to help you meet new people - especially new players (so you can teach them the...

The changes presented will create a more interesting and varied game. This directly leads to the creation of a game that in general more people will wish to play. That does not mean that the current...

One of the interesting possibilites we could see next round is an alliance could play for its memebr's sucess - potentially somehting like a #15-15 ranked alliances could end up dominating the planet...